Bald Eagle Aviation

[51fixer]

How's he getting both of them there? He's one guy unless you've figured out how to safely radio control one of the two....

Haven't you ever seen a Spit painted in drone colors?

[CAPFlyer]

Haven't you ever seen a Spit painted in drone colors?

No, in fact I haven't. Dare you to paint Jim's (with watercolors of course).

[airnutz]

How about a nice photo recon pink? Paint the mother pank...that'd be an eyecatcher!

[51fixer]

I kept it in its present colors and did the Atlantic City Thunder over the Boardwalk show last tues and wed.
I still haven't seen all the pics my son took but hope to get some posted here soon.

[Lynn Allen]

Rich, did you all have any problems with Irene? The news is showing a lot damage from flooding in Philly.

Lynn

[51fixer]

Rich, did you all have any problems with Irene? The news is showing a lot damage from flooding in Philly.

Lynn

There are spots in Philly that flood in about any heavy rain.
I'm about straight north of Philly and we got a bunch of rain. I feared I'd lose some trees but only had mostly small branches and a few medium ones come down.
Jim reported that the hangar only had a couple wet spots where we have wet spots in heavy rain.
Thankfully a little better than what was forecast in our region.
A few miles east one of the hockey player's families was without power through the afternoon. Don't know if it is back on yet.
Sunlight and blue sky was out late this afternoon and the wind has died down.

[51fixer]

Folks,
Thanks for busting the 150K visit mark.
We appreciate your following.

[51fixer]

Collings Foundation Aircraft have arrived.

[51fixer]

We're expanding the reach of our grounding efforts.
Betty Jane had a Hyd Problem which caused the hyd pressure to constantly cycle up and down.
We found a split o-ring in the inner gear door actuator on the L/H side and replaced it.
Looks good as a solution. Hopefully tomorrow they can test it out.

[51fixer]

Some good reading for you Griffon fans. More info than you ever wanted to know-
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/RR-Griffon.pdf

Sept 45 article on the Griffon 65-
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/griffon-65.pdf

Interesting info on the Mk XIV
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spitfire-XIV.html

Comparison of Tempest V, Mustang III and Spitfire Mk XIV for use in chasing Buzz Bombs-
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/ ... e1501.html
Note to self- Don't bet on the Tempest to win any reliability awards.

Some info on the Really High Power Griffon 69.
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/griffon-69.pdf

[ZRX61]

We're expanding the reach of our grounding efforts.

Almost sig worthy

[51fixer]

After helping fix a few items on Betty Jane-

The folks with the CF offered us a few empty seats on the B-24. Of course we got the aisle seats.

After T-O we circled the airport-

We got up and went aft to the rear turret.

Stephen lookng out the side window just forward of the rear turret.

Michael doing the same.

Scanning the sky-

And the ground-

The waist windows are a great place to take in the view. The wind deflectors really cut down any wind.

Post flight as we walk away.

I wholly encourage any of you to do this when they are in your area. We went up with a B-24 tailgunner who we were told was shot down during the war.
He got a ride up front on this mission.

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[51fixer]

We're expanding the reach of our grounding efforts.

Almost sig worthy

Mark Henley was flying the P-51 this visit and got a flight in today. All looks good.

[Lynn Allen]

Wow, green grass, almost forgot what it looks like.....

[51fixer]

Wow, green grass, almost forgot what it looks like.....

We got green grass and trees, no sagebrush, scrub brush or tumble weeds.
The CF folks have moved onto Cape May NJ.